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Show Abstract The Office of Public Archaeology (OPA) at Brigham Young University carried out a survey Of the proposed West Valley Light Rail Corridor in Salt Lake County to identify and assess historic properties located within the area of the proposed transportation corridor. A number of potential historic properties were previously identified in the vicinity of the project corridor by the URS Corporation of Denver, Colorado (Mutaw 2002). These sites were reexamined by OPA and an assessment was made of the eligibility and significance of the properties under the guidelines established by the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Most of the project lies within highly urbanized areas of private and public land in the incorporated cities of South Salt Lake City, and West Valley City, Utah. In these built-up areas, the emphasis was on the identification of existing structures that could possibly qualify as historic properties under the NRHP guidelines. Also examined were historic ditches, canals and railroads which lie within the proposed light rail corridor. In addition, the Office of Public Archaeology conducted a standard pedestrian survey of several discontinuous parcels of undeveloped land situated at various locations along the proposed corridor. These areas were identified for survey because they .have not been significantly disturbed by modern development, and thus retained the potential to contain undisturbed evidence of prehistoric or historic cultural materials in the form of archaeological remains. Most of these parcels were located in the area near the Jordan River where some open undeveloped land remains in isolated areas. ii |
